Tuesday, February 23, 2016

At the YU Book Sale, books with 10,000 different viewpoints are
sold, including Kosher Jesus and books from the extreme Leftist .The book that IS banned from sale
is Kahane on the Parsha. Students are not allowed to buy this book and
decide from themselves if the Parsha as written by Rabbi Meir Kahane and Rabbi
Binyamin Kahane is what they believe in or even something to think about. YU
doesNotallow freedom of thought when it
comes to Kahane.

Now, let us learn Parshat Ki Tisa
as written by Rabbi Meir Kahane HY”D and submitted to the Jewish Press just hours
before hisassassination.

Kahane on the Parsha

Rabbi Meir Kahane- Parshat Ki
Tisa

THE TORAH SOLUTION: EXPULSION!!!

For many years I have pointed out
the clear halachic status of a non-Jew in the Land of Israel, which is in total
contradiction to Western democracy, which postulates complete equality of all
peoples regardless of ethnic, national, or religious background. I have pointed
out that he has, at best, the status of a ger toshav, assuming that status is
still applicable nowadays when yovel is not in force.

I have also pointed out that a
non-Jew who wishes to live in the Land of Israel MUST ACCEPT upon himself the
obligations of misim and shibud (tribute and servitude) under which he cannot
ever hold sway over any Jew in Israel and cannot hold any position of authority
(see Hilchot Melachim6:11). In a word, I have pointed out the
clear halacha of a non-Jew with absolutely no NATIONAL (as opposed to personal)
rights in the Land of Israel that was given to the Jew as a Holy Land in which
he must live alone and in isolation, creating his own unique and holy Torah
state.

Today, after deep contemplation
and study of the situation, I believe all this applies to every non-Jew--except
for the Arabs who call themselves "Palestinians." They, unlike any
other people, have the halachic status of the ancient Canaanites. Let us
consider my point.

We clearly find in halacha a
difference in status between ordinary non-Jews and non-Jews from the seven
Canaanite nations--a difference that is expressed only in part by the fact that
refusal to surrender on the part of ordinary nations leads to the killing of
all their male adults (not their women and children), whereas similar refusal
by the Canaanites leads to TOTAL extermination. Why this halachic distinction?
Because there is a FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE between non-Jews who have origin in
the Land of Israel (but wish to live there now) and those who stem from
it--i.e., those who were there before the Jews arrived or came during the
absence of Jewish sovereignty in the land.

To understand the nature of this
difference, consider the words of the great Biblical commentator, the
Abarbanel, on the following verses, "Behold, I drive out before you the
Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites. Be vigilant lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the
land to which you come, lest it be a snare in your midst" (Exodus
34:11-12). The Abarbanel writes:

"Since the Almighty drives
out His enemies, it is unseemly that we should make a covenant with them
because this would be a desecration of His honor. [Furthermore], a treaty with
them will not succeed since there is no doubt that they will ALWAYS seek evil
for Israel considering that the Israelites took their land from them. And this
is the meaning of the words 'the land to which you come'--i.e., since you,
Israel, went into that land and took it from its inhabitants, and since they
feel oppressed and robbed of it, how will they preserve a treaty of friendship?
Rather it will be the opposite; they will be 'a snare in your midst'--i.e.,
when war breaks out they will join your enemies and fight you."

What a stupendously true and
incisive comment by the great Abarbanel and how much it understands the reality
of human nature. And how different from that of the sad Moderdox of our time,
who not only prattle about equal rights for the inhabitants of the land under
the Jews who took the land from them but who ignore--because they lack the
courage to face up to it--the reality of human feelings and the unwillingness
to accept crumbs rather than the sovereignty that was.

The Abarbanel lays down the clear
fundamental reality that non-Jews who were in the Land of Israel before the
Jews arrived will never accept their defeat. They will always dream of revanche
and the day when they will take the land back. They will never see themselves
as equals in a land that was once theirs and now belongs to the Jews who
"graciously" consent to give them "rights." And herein is
the fundamental difference in feeling between nations who were in the Land of
Israel first, before the Jews arrived to take it for themselves, and other
non-Jews who have no sovereign claim to the land but wish to live there now.

And, indeed, this
postulate--which equates ALL peoples who were in the land before the Jews with
the Canaanites--is also advanced by the holy Ohr HaChaim in his commentary to
Numbers 33:52, which instructs the Jewish people to "drive out all the
inhabitants of the land." He writes: "It's true that the [Torah says]
concerning the seven nations, 'You shall utterly destroy them,' but this verse
refers to nations OTHER THAN the seven nations found there. And that is why the
Torah specifically states 'ALL the inhabitants of the land'--i.e., even those
who are not of the seven nations."

And so we see: The seven nations
do not have their special status alone, but rather all people who were in the
Land of Israel before the Jews arrived, and who see the Jews as robbers who
stole the land from them, have the same kind of attitude and approach of hate
and revenge--and thus, the same legal status.

The Jewish Press, 1990 Editor's note: This Dvar Torah derives
from the very last article Rabbi Meir Kahane wrote for The Jewish Press. The
article was published in two installments. Rabbi Kahane submitted the second
half to The Jewish Press onNovember 5th, just hours before his
assassination

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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

K A H A N E

The
magazine of the authentic Jewish Idea -
Spring 5744 -1984

THE LEMMING

The lemming looks like a sensible enough animal, but its
habit of drowning itself in the sea has long puzzled scientists. The lemming is a small animal, about the size
of a rat. The lemming is a strange
animal with a very strange custom. The
lemming, every few years, gathers together with a great many other lemmings,
and they all march together – to the sea.
The lemming and all the other lemmings march shoulder to shoulder and
when they reach the sea they do a very strange thing: They jump in and drown. The lemming is a very strange animal and no
one can understand it.

There are various categories of lemmings and last Saturday
night, the Hebrew lemmings gathered in Jerusalem, some several thousand of
them, small creatures, the stature of rodents.
And they marched. Shoulder to
shoulder down the road of madness, inexorably moving to the sea of
destruction. The march of the lemmings, “Suicide Now”.

The Hebrew lemming is a strange animal undoubtedly the most
irrational of all. Psychologists and
sociologists and anthropologists and biologists and students of irrational
behavior from far and wide gathered to study the march of the Hebrew
lemmings. “Peace Now”, was what
they carried as their slogan as they marched to the sea of suicide to
partake of the most permanent of peace. “Leave Lebanon” was etched on
their banners as they marched in preparation of leaving the world. “Stop Jewish settlements in the Occupied
Territories” they proclaimed as they began their uprooting of their
settlement on this earth.

The Hebrew lemming is a strange animal and it is said that
no one can understand it. That is not
really true. I understand the small
Hebrew lemming, the stature of the rodent, who seeks to leap into the sea to
die. And if the sociologists and
psychologists and anthropologists and biologists and students of irrational
behavior will gather together, I will describe for you what makes the Hebrew
lemmings – run – to commit suicide.

The issue is not and never was “Lebanon”. The issue was never the “occupied territories
of 1967”. What strikes terror into the
hearts of the Hebrew lemmings of the stature of the rodent, is an immense cancer
called guilt, that grows inside of them until it gives them no rest.

The lemming of guilt is the Hebrew-speaking rodent who is
haunted by the thought that he is not only an oppressor and aggressor in the
“occupied lands of 1967” but he is also a thief and robber of a people he calls
“Palestinians”, and really has no right to any of the land that was once
“Palestine”. The Hebrew lemming of Suicide
Now is haunted by the thought that his family had no right to come from
Russia or Poland or Galicia or England or Canada or Argentina or the United
States to create a “Jewish State” on lands that were owned by others.

But since the lemming is the size of a rat, who lacks the
courage to honestly follow up his convictions, stand up before the
“Palestinian” and say: “I am a thief and
I hereby return my kibbutz to you” – he must, instead, fight all the harder for
the poor “Palestinian” in Judea, Samaria, Gaza, Lebanon. His weakness and inability to give up his
houses in Kibbutz Mishmar Ha’Emek or the artist’s colony of Ein Hod or the
tennis courts of Ramat Ha’Sharon or villa in Savyon, drives the Hebrew lemming
into even greater depression of guilt and self-hate. His need to prostrate himself before the poor
Arab of any other area except his own house becomes an all-consuming, obsessive
one.

And, of course, the guilt goes much further. The Hebrew lemming, who is a small animal
about the size of a rat, deeply despises with a psychopathic passion everything
that smacks of Judaism and the curse of fate that made him Jewish. In his little heart the lemming knows that
Judaism’s values are at odds with everything that he wishes his life to consist
of. The separateness and exclusivity of
Judaism vis-à-vis other peoples is anathema to his universalistic desire to intermarry,
assimilate, amalgamate with all the goyim and thus find love and escape
in their midst. The concept of
Chosenness repels him for he seeks anything that will enable him to eliminate
the barriers between Jews and others.
The holiness that decrees discipline and sanctity and abstinence and
personal limitations are all diametrically opposed to his materialistic need
for total freedom, anarchy, and limitless right to license. He sees in Judaism racism, primitiveness,
parochialism, concepts that he abhors because he seeks to be a universal
rodent. And faced with this Judaism, he
is faced, too, with the fact that he is a Jew.
This is the horror that he cannot abide.
From guilt emerges self-hate, black and ugly self-hate. The lemming must escape. His escape is through the sea. TheSea of Suicide, SuicideNow.
Let the state that he feels to be a robber state, go under. Let the people and faith that he sees as
reactionary and fascist and abominable, cease to exist. “Let my soul perish with the Philistines! The cry of the Hebrew lemmings of Suicide
Now.

The tragic story of the Hebrew lemmings. But, if it must be, it would be sufficient if
they leaped into the sea themselves. The
real tragedy is that while ordinary lemmings take the plunge themselves, the
Hebrew ones seeks to take all of us with them.

And that cannot be.
That is why the lemmings of Israel must be fought. Because they have become more than an
interesting zoological phenomenon. They
threaten the existence of normal, healthy, true Jews who are not small animals
the size of a rodent.

THE GREAT DANGER (excerpt)

The great danger and most powerful weapon of the
Hebrew-speaking gentiles and lemmings of Israel, is their ability to so instill
guilt and doubt in us, that we close our mouths and minds and fear to say what
we know is to be true.

The small circle of leftists and guilt-ridden liberals,
intellectuals and frustrated artistic type, possesses a weapon of overwhelming
power, and it is this that enables them to march toward victory. Their control of the news media affords them
the opportunity, daily, to influence, indoctrinate, pervert, corrupt, an entire
generation that is their captive audience.
They decree the gentilized foreign culture that becomes the passion of
the masses. They decree the ideas and
perverted gentilized values that are heard and propagated over the waves. An entire generation of youth is in their
hands. And they are aided by the
frustrated spiritually sick, lost artists who join them in parody of championing
of “peace and love”. They din their
message of perversion into our ears every day, every hour, every minute.

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Cost of book 88 NIS

Once again, Israeli leaders and
Jewish Establishment groups are “surprised.” In the wake of the riots which saw
Arab citizens of the Jewish state stone Jewish buses, attack a police station
and firebomb security vehicles — the one word which Jewish leaders,
intellectuals and news media used over and over again was “surprise.” Suddenly,
all the years of efforts by Israeli and Jewish leaders to persuade the world —
but more important, themselves — that the Arabs of Israel were loyal citizens
of the Jewish state exploded in the wake of the Arab riots —notin the territories, but inside the
Israeli cities of Jaffa, Lydda, Ramle, Acre, Nazareth, Um el Fahem and, of
course, Jerusalem.

The most surprising thing about all
this is the fact that Jews are surprised. It is this “surprise” and shock which
is the direct result of decades of deliberate efforts to avoid dealing with the
real, root cause of the problem, a madness that continues to this very day. All
the absurd “explanations” and rationalizations: the problem, we were told, is
that the Arab economic and social position is not equal to that of the Jew. Or
the problem is that the “occupation” of the West Bank and Gaza is causing anger
and upset among the Israeli Arabs.As
if those are the reasons Israeli Arabs take to the streets and cry “Palestine!
We will free the Galilee with blood and spirit!”As if giving Israeli Arabs more sewers
and more indoor toilets will put an end to the problem. As if a “Palestinian”
state in the territories will send theIsraeliArabs back to their homes, happy and
satisfied.

The root of the growing Israeli
Arab revolt does not lie in economic inequality. It lies in a problem that is
so basic and so painful and so terrifying for secular Israeli and Jewish
leaders that they flee from confrontation with it — thus assuring that it will
grow to proportions that will threaten the very existence of Israel.

The root of the Israeli Arab
hostility and, indeed, hatred of Israel, lies in the very definition of Israel
as a “Jewish state.” It lies in the very basis of Zionism, which arose to
recreate the “Jewish state” that twice stood in the land. And Israel which, in
the words of the Declaration of Independence, was to be “a Jewish state in the
Land of Israel,” by definition could never allow the Arabs to be equal. It
could never allow the Arabs the opportunity to become the majority — albeit
peacefully — and democratically change a Jewish state into an Arab one, an
Israel into a Palestine. Indeed, the root of the problem and of the liberal
Jewish nightmare is that there is a basic, immutable contradiction between
Western democracy and a Jewish state.

Western democracy eliminates all
such concepts as national background or religion. Whoever are the majority
rules, and both Arabs and Jews have the right to become the majority in Israel
— under this Western democratic credo — and do with the country what they, the
majority, will. Certainly, such a basic law as that passed by the socialist
Zionist government of David Ben-Gurion in 1950, the Law of Return, that allows
Jews automatic right to immigrate and become Israeli citizens, is not what
Western democracy would adopt.

But that is exactly the kind of law
that Zionism and a Jewish state did adoptand
must adopt, for the Jewish people’s main dream is that of a Jewish state,
and all that can be done to insure the Jewishness of that state is not only
proper but mandatory. A Jewish people, for 1,900 years, lived in involuntary
exile, as a minority in Christian and Moslem countries. It enjoyed such
minority benefits as Crusades and Inquisitions and pogroms and, of course,
Auschwitz. It decided that never again would it be trampled upon, spat upon,
gassed to death and burned alive. It decided that it would have a Jewish state
in which the Jew was master of his fate, never dependent on others.

That is Zionism and that is Israel
— the Jewish state — and there is nothing for any Jew to be ashamed of. But let
him never deceive himself. A Jewish state can never be a Western democratic
one, and it can never allow the Arab political equality with the Jew, no matter
how much the liberal and Left in Israel and the Jewish Establishment refuse to
face it.

And that is why the Arab in Israel
riots and hates the Jewish state. Because it can never be his, by virtue of the
stark fact that he is not a Jew. It is the contradiction between Zionism and
Western democracy that is at the heart of the inevitable Arab hostility. And
all the economic benefits and all the Palestinian states in the world will
never remove the reality of the Israeli Arab who will never accept the Jewish
state. It will get worse. Much worse. The Arab birthrate and the new
generation of young, educated and hostile Israeli Arabs guarantee that in the
years to come, the world will watch on its television screens rioting and
shooting of Arabs in the Galilee and the cities of Israel.

The Arabs of Israel joined with the
Arabs of the territories in rioting, for the simple reason that they are ONE.
For them there is no nonsensical “Green Line,” of 1967. The Arabs of Israel and
the territories, both, are logical and normal. They know and proclaim what
normal Jews such as Kahane do. They believe and proclaim that there is but ONE
“Palestinian” people and that all of the land — “West Bank” and Israel — is
really ONE, “Palestine.” To be sure, the Arabs of Israel have no intention of
leaving Israel, but surely not because they love Israel. The contention of so
many vapid Israeli leaders that the Israeli Arab is caught in the dilemma of
being a member of the Palestine nation and citizen of Israel is ridiculous.There is no dilemma for the Arab.His identity is not dual; it is clear
and unmistaken. He considers himself to be a member of the Palestinian Arab
nation. The fact that he is also a citizen of Israel and lives in the Jewish
state is not a dilemma for him, but rather an unfortunate tragedy that he must
live with at the moment, but which he strives, daily, to change.

The problem in getting Jews to
understand all this lies in the basic dishonesty of the Jewish leadership and
the ‘gentilized’, liberal views that surround them, and from which they spring.
It lies in the basic dishonesty of the Jewish news media, intellectuals and
clergy (both non-Orthodox and, in great degree, Moderdox Modern
Orthodox). This dishonesty is rooted in the terrible fear of admitting the
fundamental contradiction between their beloved Western democracy and gentilized
social values, and the values and definitions of Zionism and authentic Judaism.
None of them has the courage to face up to this contradictionand choose!

It is this cowardice that threatens
the very existence of Israel, for the vacillation, the hesitation, the flight
from the obvious and only choice — expulsion — sees the enormous growth of Arab
population as well as the radicalization of an educated and boldly brazen new
generation of Israeli Arabs. The cowardly refusal to choose and to act sees a
growing sense of uncertainty and then guilt among young Israeli Jews, young
people who — in any event — are naked of Jewish values, thanks to the
‘gentilized’, secular education they receive.

This cowardly fear of deciding for
Zionism and a Jewish state, and rejecting Western democracy, is nothing short
of criminal. The signs and the evidence of Israeli Arab hatred of the Jewish
state have been there to see for decades! In recent years not even the most
blind of people could fail to see it. When Arab Communist Party Knesset Member
Tewfik Ziad hears Labor M.K. David Libai speak of Jews defending the right of
the Arab minority, he calls out: “The minority that will be the majority, in
the future” (Knesset minutes, Dec. 9, 1986).

And when Muhamad Mussarwa, the
Israeli Consul General in Atlanta (chosen by Israel as some Uncle Ahmed to show
the greatness of Israeli token democracy), tells a group of Atlanta rabbis
(come to drink from his feet): “Israel is my country. I do not perceive it as a
Jewish state” (Atlanta Jewish Times, Nov. 20, 1987) — he is merely proclaiming
what every Arab sees as the most logical strategy. Unable to demand a
“Palestine” at this moment, proclaim Israel to be a Western democracy in which
Jews and Arabs aretruly equal,
i.e., Israel is not a Jewish state and Arabs have the right to become the
majority and create the kind of state they desire.

This is exactly what the openly
pro-PLO Arab M.K., Mohamed Miari (Progressive List), meant when he said: “The
State of Israel is not the state of the Jewish people but rather of the
citizens who are there by virtue of being citizens of the State of Israel”
(Knesset minutes, Oct. 15, 1985).

And this is what Na’ama Saud, an
Israeli Arab teacher, tells the newspaper Ma’ariv (May 28, 1976): “Today, I am
in the minority. Who says that in the year 2000 we Arabs will still be in the
minority? Today, I accept the fact that this is a Jewish state with an Arab
minority. But when we are the majority I will not accept the fact of a Jewish
state with an Arab majority.”

And Muhamed Muhareb, chairman of
the Arab students at Hebrew University, tells Ma’ariv (January 20, 1978): “I am
first and foremost a Palestinian, resident of Lydda. My Israeli citizenship was
forced upon me. I do not recognize it and do not see myself as belonging to the
State of Israel. With the final solution common to the Arabs of Palestine and
of Judea, Lydda will be in the sovereign boundaries of the democratic state.
What will that state be called? Palestine, naturally.” And that is why Arab
mobs in the Israeli town of Taibe shout: “Katyushas will yet fall again on
Kiryat Shemona,” and some 6,000 Israeli Arabs come to the Knesset to
demonstrate and shout: “We will free the Galilee with blood!”

The Arabs of Israel are a hostile,
hating minority in the midst of a Jewish state they hate and despise and dream
of overthrowing. The absurd shibboleth that is waved on high again and again by
the ‘gentilized’ cowards to the effect that “the overwhelming majority of
Israeli Arabs have never been involved in anti-state acts” is worse than
stupidity. One could as well prove that the French or Dutch or Norwegians
enjoyed living under the Nazi occupation because so few joined the underground
against the Germans. Most people do not risk life and limb by attacking authority.
It takes courage to join an underground or a terrorist group. Most people do
not relish being caught and serving long prison sentences. That doesnotmean that they do not admire the PLO
or support it. And even those who are against violence are of that mind for the
pragmatic reason that they feel it will not work.But all of the Israeli Arabs reject
a “Jewish state,” reject the Zionist concept of a Jewish statein which they — the non-Jews — must,
of necessity, be strangers.

The Jewish leaders in Israel; the
Jewish Establishment in the Exile; the Jewish news media and the intellectuals
— all are bound to Western democracy as some Prometheus, to which their
Hellenism so gravitates. All are too terrified and too weak to choose a Jewish
state over Western democracy. That is why they doom Israel to years of slow and
agonizing torture; to years of Arab rebellion within the country; to years of
bloody confrontation with Arabs inside the Jewish state; to years of world
condemnation of Israel.

If we do not want that, we must
throw off the yoke of the present Jewish leadership in Israel and the Exile. We
must reject the sterile anger and protests of sterile Jewish liberals, who are
the most dangerous enemies that Israel faces.

If we do not want tragedy, let us throw
off our fear of facing the contradiction of Western democracy and a Jewish
state. And let us choose a Jewish state,with
no guilt. The answer, the inevitable answer is — remove the Arabs to any of
their 22 states, and Israel will remain the one Jewish state for the Jewish
people. Without liberal guilt or apologies.

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Rabbi Meir Kahane: His Life and Thought, 1976-1983” (volume 2), has been
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Saturday, February 6, 2016

On
the verse, "If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies,
there shall be no bloodguilt on his account" (Exodus 22:1). Rashi cites a
passage in the Talmud that is certain to shock liberal Jews:

"If
one comes to slay you, rise and slay him first. And this thief indeed came to
kill you since he knows that a person will not stand by quietly and watch his
possessions being stolen. Hence, he is prepared to kill you if you confront
him."

Absolutely
amazing! In other words, the Rabbis are telling us that the rule of "If
one comes to slay you, rise and slay him first" does not exclusively address
someone with a knife being held to his throat. The rule is much more expansive.
The Rabbis teach us that a person is obligated to think a few steps ahead and
anticipate. If he thinks there is a real threat that someone may kill him, he
is required to "rise and slay him first."

In
this Talmudic passage, the Rabbis enter the psyche of the thief. They reason
that the thief, knowing the likelihood of resistance, has prepared himself to
kill the owner if necessary. Therefore, the owner may kill him immediately upon
confronting him without waiting to see how the thief will react to being
caught.

How
we have distorted the concept of "If one comes to slay you, rise and slay
him first"! The average Moderdox Jew thinks that one can only rise and
slay the Arab who is throwing a Molotov cocktail or yelling "Allah Akhbar"
as he chases his victim with a hatchet. He believes that if the danger is not
"this very instant" - but rather will reveal itself in one hour or
one week - the law does not apply. What was obvious to the Rabbis - that one
MUST think a few steps ahead and that a person does not "not stand by
quietly and watch his possessions being stolen" - is not obvious in
today's society where "humanism" and distorted concepts of morality
run rampant.

In
Israel, Jews continue to passively accept being beaten and humiliated by our
enemy, lacking the healthy and normal survival instinct to "rise and slay
him first." This self-restraint is justified with the argument that the
situation is not life-threatening. And so, soldiers and settlers shoot warning
shots in the air after being attacked since the danger, as they see it, is not
imminent. According to IDF guidelines, soldiers, upon seeing a terrorist, must
shout a warning, shoot in the air, and, if the situation gets really hot, shoot
at the terrorist's legs. Only a Jew who is already dead can shoot to kill since
anyone who does so before that point will find himself facing murder charges.
[Before the terror attacks today, this used to be the law for soldiers bg]

In
short, we have learned two important lessons. First, the rule "If one
comes to slay you, rise and slay him first" is not limited to a situation
where someone is pointing a gun to your head; one is permitted to anticipate
potential danger to life. Second, only a nation devoid of any self-respect
doesn't rise up and fight back. After all, the Talmudic passage we quoted at
the beginning of this article concerns fighting for one's property. Shouldn't
its logic apply all the more so concerning fighting for one's life?

We
must cease to interpret and define Halacha in accordance with our Western
mentality and mindset. We must rise up, just like one rises early for Vatikin
(shacharit/morning services), and think a few steps ahead so that we can kill
the murderous trespassers before it is too late.

Darka
Shel Torah, 1992

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into the main search box: Meir Kahane Life 1976

Rabbi
Meir Kahane: His Life and Thought, 1976-1983” (volume 2), has been published.
and now available in Israel. Can be bought from Yeshivat Haraayon Hayehudi
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About Me

The blogs I am operating are Rabbi Meir Kahane Writings and Baruch Marzel to Knesset. The purpose of Rabbi Meir Kahane Writings is to educate people in the "Authentic Jewish Idea" and the warnings of future dangers written and spoken by Rabbi Kahane h"yd. Dangers we are living with today. Michael Ben-Ari's blog shows Ben-Ari's continuation of Rabbi Meir Kahane's h"yd activities and ideology in and out of the Knesset. Baruch Marzel is presently running for the Knesset under the banner of Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Strength). I and my husband have been working with Rabbi Meir Kahane since JDL days in N.Y. where my husband Chaim was on the Executive Board of JDL. I headed the Nassau Chapter until made aliyah in 1978. In Israel I was Head of the English Speakers of Rabbi Kahane's organization and also curator of the Museum of the Potential Holocaust started by the Rabbi. I went on speaking engagements in the U.S. and Canada. Organized Fund-Raising Dinners for Rabbi Kahane; worked in election campaigns for Rabbi Kahane ,Baruch Marzel and Dr. Michael Ben-Ari. We live in Ma'ale Adumim, Israel